Classic rock
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The classic rock format became increasingly popular with the [[baby boomer]] demographic in the 1980s and 1990s.{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dmmLAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA153|access-date=August 2, 2015|page=153|editor1-last=Sterling|editor1-first=Christopher H.|editor1-link=Christopher H. Sterling|editor2-last=O'Dell|editor2-first=Cary|title=The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio|last=Leigh|first=Frederic A.|chapter=Classic Rock Format|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2011|isbn=978-1135176846}} Although classic rock has mostly appealed to adult listeners, music associated with this format received more exposure with younger listeners with the presence of the Internet and digital downloading.{{Cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2004-03-29-classic-rock-kids_x.htm |title=Kids are listening to their parents – Their parents' music, that is |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626142525/http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2004-03-29-classic-rock-kids_x.htm |archive-date=June 26, 2012 |url-status=dead |work=USA Today |date=March 30, 2004 |first=Edna |last=Gundersen}} Some classic rock stations also play a limited number of current releases which are stylistically consistent with the station's sound, or by legacy acts which are still active and producing new music."New York Radio Guide: Radio Format Guide", NYRadioGuide.com, 2009-01-12, webpage: [http://www.nyradioguide.com/formats.htm NYRadio-formats]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060327164156/http://www.nyradioguide.com/formats.htm |date=March 27, 2006 }} |
The classic rock format became increasingly popular with the [[baby boomer]] demographic in the 1980s and 1990s.{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dmmLAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA153|access-date=August 2, 2015|page=153|editor1-last=Sterling|editor1-first=Christopher H.|editor1-link=Christopher H. Sterling|editor2-last=O'Dell|editor2-first=Cary|title=The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio|last=Leigh|first=Frederic A.|chapter=Classic Rock Format|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2011|isbn=978-1135176846}} Although classic rock has mostly appealed to adult listeners, music associated with this format received more exposure with younger listeners with the presence of the Internet and digital downloading.{{Cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2004-03-29-classic-rock-kids_x.htm |title=Kids are listening to their parents – Their parents' music, that is |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626142525/http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2004-03-29-classic-rock-kids_x.htm |archive-date=June 26, 2012 |url-status=dead |work=USA Today |date=March 30, 2004 |first=Edna |last=Gundersen}} Some classic rock stations also play a limited number of current releases which are stylistically consistent with the station's sound, or by legacy acts which are still active and producing new music."New York Radio Guide: Radio Format Guide", NYRadioGuide.com, 2009-01-12, webpage: [http://www.nyradioguide.com/formats.htm NYRadio-formats]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060327164156/http://www.nyradioguide.com/formats.htm |date=March 27, 2006 }} |
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Among academics and historians, classic rock has been discussed as an effort by critics, media, and music establishments to canonize rock music and commodify [[Counterculture of the 1960s|1960s–1970s Western culture]] for audiences living in a post-baby boomer economy. The music selected for the format has been identified as predominantly commercially successful songs by white male acts from the [[Anglosphere]], expressing values of |
Among academics and historians, classic rock has been discussed as an effort by critics, media, and music establishments to canonize rock music and commodify [[Counterculture of the 1960s|1960s–1970s Western culture]] for audiences living in a post-baby boomer economy. The music selected for the format has been identified as predominantly commercially successful songs by white male acts from the [[Anglosphere]], expressing values of romanticism, self-aggrandizement, and politically undemanding ideologies. Classic rock has also been associated with rock's [[album era]] (1960s–2000s). |
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==History== |
==History== |
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